Beautifully Inked (Zayn Malik AU)

Chapter 8

I threw my keys on the counter top as Louis settled on one of the seats.

"So what now?"

"What do you mean 'what now'?"

He gave me a 'really-you-dick-head-look' and flashed his middle finger. I can't have him to juice plans out of me, I don't have any fucking clue what to do.

"Obviously, now that you know that both of your girls are unstable-- mentally. What are you gonna do?"

"Don't call them 'my girls' because they're not, and second, I don't have a fucking idea."

Fuck.

Yassi was a troubled girl, but I did not know she went through that much. She look sad, yes-- but not that sad anyway. She's too good with hiding her emotions if that's the case. But she seem like the easy to read kind of person, a predictable one. Fuck. I don't know. Everything about her is contradicting.

"Wish it on hell, mate. You even helped the lass to get in the library. Why not call her 'your girl', then?" he asked smirking.

"Don't push me, Lou. Or I'll cut your head off."

"Which one?"

"Wanker."

"Got it."

I was about to throw something else to Louis when Harry and Niall burst from the door. These fucktards should know that they don't live here anymore.

"Oi, oi!" Niall's accent made me smile, but I suppressed it.

"We're still going out tonight?" Harry asked as he settled beside Niall on my sofa.

"Definitely," Niall answered.

"Are you going to bring that pretty librarian?" Louis asked him, smirking. Oh yes, that tiny red-head lass. She's a bit snobby if you're going to ask me, but since Niall's the one involved with her, her attitude tones down. Everyone loves Niall.

"Absolutely."

"How about your girl?" Louis is a real dickhead.

"You know I can't," I sighed, "El will be there, Sophia and Liam, too."

My friends are Perrie's friends too. But unlike these three; Sophia, Liam, and El still think that I should make up with Perrie. They're all oblivious of what Perrie did-- and I'm not planning on telling it to anyone, because no matter how much she sinned, she was still the girl I loved.

"Tell them I was the one who invited her," Harry suggested.

"As if you can fool Liam with that shit," Louis snickered. He's right. Liam won't buy that excuse.

"Fuck what Liam thinks," Harry laughed, eyes crinkling on the side. We all know he's kidding because never in this world would Harry disregard any one else's thought.

"Harry's right," Niall says, "Even though he doesn't mean it."

"Just invite her, Zayn," Louis says, "We'll see what happens from there. But the real question is, do you want to invite her?"

"Fuck," was my words before I fish my phone out to call Yassi.

. . . .

As I sat in the same table with my friends and Yassi, I'm fine and not in the same time. There's this thought that they might say something about Perrie and blow off this unlabeled connection with Yassi that I have. One wrong word and everything will be fucked.

She doesn't have any idea that Perrie exists. It'a terrible of me to keep it from her, specially we're starting to develop some sort of connection. But what am I gonna tell her? Hey, I'm starting to like you but I can't let myself do it because my unstable ex girlfriend is still hurting herself whenever she like it. Yes. That sounds good, right?

I watch her smile as she talk with Janet, and El. Though she was seated beside me, her body leans away from mine.

How can this woman hide something dark inside her, and act as if she was fine. She looks fine: she laugh when they say something funny, she feels bad when they metion something sad. She looks normal to my eyes-- above normal. Shit. She's more than normal obviously.

What the fuck am I thinking?

She's obviously extraordinary.

The more I watch her, the more I want to know her. I want ger to tell me why her brother cannot stay in the same house as her. Why she thinks her brother kill their youngest sibling? A lot of questions are running inside my head as I watch her chat with the other girls. So the changes in her expression as her eyes set somewhere- to someone- didn't went unnoticed under my gaze.

Liam.

If this fucking righteous boy will ruin this night for her, I will seriously kill him. He's not making any help with taunting her. Fuck. She's oblivious with Perrie's existence!

Stop. Fucking. Taunting. Her.